SimpleButtonListPlugin

***sub*** · 2010-08-02, 07:56 PM

The next suggestion I'd probably make is instead of using base.GetRenderList() then removing stuff, maybe start with an empty renderlist, and add uiButtonList.GetRenderList(), and conditionally add uiList.GetRenderList().

Alternatively, in the next build you can just set uiList.Visible = false;.

imilne · 2010-08-02, 09:11 PM

Many thanks - I'll let you know how I get on...

imilne · 2010-08-03, 06:06 PM

Yay, we're cooking with fire now after your suggestions sub. Cheers once again.

There's still a slight issue with the list not always updating even after being fed a new set of objects, but I'm not too fussed about that yet. It may simply be that I'm updating it too often. The final version is only going to do updates every 15 or 30s rather than every 1s just now.

I do have one other question though. What's the proper procedure for letting the list know it has *no* items to display? UiList.SetListObjects() expects a list - which can be empty, no problems there - and an index of an item to select, but there won't be one. Now, as far as I can tell, it doesn't seem to matter, except for the ListPosition element then displaying 1/0 instead of 0/0. A bug perhaps? (although the recordings screen can show 0/0 with a skin tweak so maybe not).

Iain

***sub*** · 2010-08-03, 06:17 PM

imilne Wrote:Yay, we're cooking with fire now after your suggestions sub. Cheers once again.

There's still a slight issue with the list not always updating even after being fed a new set of objects, but I'm not too fussed about that yet.

Maybe you need to ensure uiList.NeedsRendering() is called in your plugin's NeedsRendering() function. (ie, not skipped if something else has already decided it needs rendering).

Quote:I do have one other question though. What's the proper procedure for letting the list know it has *no* items to display? UiList.SetListObjects() expects a list - which can be empty, no problems there - and an index of an item to select, but there won't be one. Now, as far as I can tell, it doesn't seem to matter, except for the ListPosition element then displaying 1/0 instead of 0/0. A bug perhaps? (although the recordings screen can show 0/0 with a skin tweak so maybe not).

Yeah, this is just a bug. It does display 1/0

imilne · 2010-08-04, 04:32 PM

Actually, setting the selected index to -1 seems to do the trick. I thought it would have crapped out on that, but it seems ok and displays 0/0 instead.